The score

Olivier Derivière wrote it, as he wrote both games before it. What is documented about this one is that the move to Crete was treated as a reason to change the music rather than transpose it — and that the vocals are sung in Cypriot Greek.

Sophia walks as a small silhouette down an enormous dark colonnaded hall lit by shafts of light through the mist
For a series that made its name on rat swarms, this one spends a lot of its time being quiet.

What changed for this one

Composer
Olivier Derivière
Returning from both earlier games.
Lyrics written in
French
Then handed to collaborators to translate.
Sung in
Cypriot Greek
Translated from the French originals by collaborators.

Why Crete needed a new sound

The two earlier scores belong to a plague in medieval France. This one moves to Crete, and Olivier has said the setting called for a new musical approach. Writing the words in French and having them sung in Cypriot Greek is the most concrete trace of that decision in the finished score.

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